Polkadot Digest 16 Sep 2022

Polkadot News

Anonymous parathread ID 2058 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period with one and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

The Polkadot Council is currently considering motion 261 to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9280. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/261

The Parity Staking Team has published a proposal on increasing the nomination minimum on Polkadot. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1224

A collection of teams are seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for a Polkadot Summit coinciding with San Franscisco Blockchain Week. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1238

There is a proposal on Polkassembly from Chainsafe seeking to continue the development of Gossamer, a Polkadot Host implementation written in Go. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1260

There is a post seeking on feedback on a potential treasury proposal for dot.alert(), a knowledge base of guidelines for asset management on Polkadot. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1265

OnFinality has published a proposal regarding sustainability options for their API endpoint service. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1270

Kusama News

The next Kusama parachain lease auction begins at block 14_515_200 (approximately Monday 19 Sep at 07.24 UTC). https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/calendar

There is a Treasury Proposal seeking to fund the dubbing of all Polkadot Decoded 2022 videos in Spanish. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1780

There is a post by the GM parachain team seeking feedback on KICRA (the Kusama Innovation Cost Reduction Act). https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1792

There is a post by a group of 1KV Kusama program members seeking feedback for a potential Polkadot Search Indexer and RPC endpoints. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1814

Subsocial has a post seeking feedback for further improvements to their sub.id service. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1813

The staking rate on Kusama has increased recently and is now at 54.4% with an ideal staking rate of 49.0%. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1813